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• Haulier Fox Group scoops up national plant hirer

  12-12-2022 23:57
  Lancashire haulier and earthworks specialist Fox Group has struck a groundbreaking deal to buy £17m revenue B&W Plant Hire & Sales.
  The Blackburn-based plant hirer operates across the country with depots also in Keighley, Northwich and Southampton.
  The deal strengthens Fox Group’s national footprint adding B&W’s hire fleet of over 2,500 items.
  After a busy three years of acquisitions and organic growth, the diversified haulage firm boasts 30 locations, a 300-wagon f
  
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• Hanson to buy £220m turnover Mick George Group

  12-12-2022 23:52
  Materials giant Hanson UK is to buy earthmoving and demolition waste recycling contractor Mick George Group.
  Hanson has made the move on the £220m turnover business to strengthen its circular materials offering while complementing its existing aggregates and ready-mixed concrete businesses.
  It adds a considerable recycling platform to Hanson’s portfolio, supporting the development of innovative technologies for processing waste and upgrading it for use in the construction cycle as a
  
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• World’s biggest crane lifts 304 tonne load at Hinkley

  12-12-2022 23:27
  The world’s largest crane, Big Carl, has lifted the third and final liner ring onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building.
  Engineering teams were able to lift the 304-tonne steel liner ring into place in the early hours of Monday morning thanks to the still wind conditions.
  It is the third and final ring to be installed on the building, which will eventually contain one of Hinkley Point C’s two nuclear reactors.The unit has now grown in height by 11.6-metres and stands at 44
  
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• Bid race for £500m new build housing framework

  12-12-2022 09:25
  The North East’s Thirteen Housing Group has started the hunt for construction partners to deliver an ambitious new build affordable housing programme over the next four years.
  The housing association was recently named as one of Homes England’s strategic partner and will receive £191m funding to help it deliver 3,270 affordable homes by 2028.
  THG’s construction framework will support the delivery of this ambitious programme from 2023-2027. Firms have until 1 February 2023
  
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• Jewson sold to new Danish owners for £740m

  12-12-2022 09:06
  Saint-Gobain has agreed the sale of all its merchanting brands in the United Kingdom – including the builders and timber merchant Jewson – to the STARK group.
  The £740m sale will see 600 branches and distribution centres change ownership to STARK which is headquartered in Copenhagen and has  operations in the Nordics, Germany, and Austria.
  STARK Group will acquire and operate Saint Gobain Building Distribution Ltd, which includes Jewson the general builders’ merchant
  
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• Councils gets £8m to hire cladding repair enforcers

  12-12-2022 08:48
  The Government is handing more than £8m for councils to recruit dedicated enforcement teams to pursue building owners dragging their heels over building safety refits.
  The funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will be split among 59 councils in England and prioritised for those with the highest number of unsafe buildings, particularly focused in London, Manchester and Birmingham.
  Minister for Building Safety Lee Rowley said: “Building owners must get e
  
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• Six jailed after £44m of drugs found hidden in excavator

  12-12-2022 08:46
  Six men behind one of the biggest ecstasy smuggling operations ever dealt with by the CPS have been jailed for a combined total of 140 years.
  Defendants Danny Brown, 55, Stefan Baldauf, 62, Tony Borg, 45, Peter Murray, 59, Philip Lawson, 61, and Leon Reilly, 50, were sentenced at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court last week for their involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle almost half a tonne of MDMA into Australia in the arm of an excavator machine.
  Between June 2019 and June 2020, Brown and Balda
  
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• Construction output grows for fourth month running

  12-12-2022 08:35
  Construction workloads have continued to hold firm despite strong headwinds in the rest of the UK economy.
  Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show construction output grew for the fourth consecutive month in October, taking the industry to nearly 5% above the pre-pandemic activity watermark.
  The overall 0.8% rise in October output came from increases in both new work (0.5%) and repair and maintenance (1.3%) on the month. This was ahead of the 0.5% seen for the UK economy as a
  
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